[tor-bugs] #9829 [Tor bundles/installation]: Firefox ESR 24 does need a newer compiler than gcc 4.2

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#9829: Firefox ESR 24 does need a newer compiler than gcc 4.2
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     Reporter:  gk                        |      Owner:  erinn
         Type:  defect                    |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |    Version:
   Resolution:                            |   Keywords:  tbb-3.0, ff24-esr
Actual Points:                            |  Parent ID:  #10103
       Points:                            |
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Comment (by gk):

 After 15 hours of building I got something to test and enabling ctypes
 fixes it for me as well, nice. I was still skeptical about the ctypes fix
 and made a native build with ctypes disabled. It does not crash (which
 worries me slightly) but is not highly usable. So, it seems we can't avoid
 ctypes easily which is kind of bad news (but will be a different bug) as
 we like to disable it in the future due to security concerns.

 Note to self: We should backport

 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=931043
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932127 (for proper ctypes
 support)
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=931053 (for handling the
 breakpad code sanely)
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=933071 (to avoid those link
 hacks to get libxul linked)

 + a yet to be written patch to handle otool without link hacks.

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